Patrick Henry
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Patrick Henry was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention: "Give me liberty or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth pos
Portrait by George Bagby Matthews after Thomas Sully, c. 1891
View of Rural Plains near Totopotomoy Creek in Virginia. Henry was reportedly married to Sarah Shelton in the parlor.
Patrick Henry Arguing the Parson's Cause (George Cooke, c. 1834)
Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses (Peter F. Rothermel, 1851)
Dorothea Dandridge Henry
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Dorothea Henry was the wife of Patrick Henry. Upon their marriage while he was in office, she served as the first and sixth First Lady of Virginia during Henry's terms as governor, from 1777 to 1779 a
Patrick Henry
…came to march. Henry was elected to a second one-year term without opposition and took the oath on July 2, 1777. On October 9 at Scotchtown, he married Dorothea Dandridge, daughter of his old client, Nathaniel West Dandridge of Hanover County. This made him closer kin to Washington, as Nathaniel Dandridge was Martha…
Asahel Powers Mrs. Patrick Henry 47.1225 Museum of Fine Arts
Governor's Palace, Governor Henry's residence in Williamsburg
Dorothea Henry's grave at the Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial